No, it hasn't been debunked, it has been argued against by those who disagree. More than one Egyptologist in the past has had similar ideas and it seems most agree that pharaohs reigns and dynasties overlapped even if Rohl has taken it to an extreme. But that extreme does fix other problems in ancient history however.
Interestingly the chronological ideas of David Rohl are no needed to justify the Bible stories of the exodus and conquest of Canaan with archaeology.
Yes a Harvard professor wrote a paper explaining why the chronology cannot be correct. Rohl isn't Jewish/Christian. Exodus is accepted as a national myth and the archaeology shows the Israelites came from Canaan.
https://lmf12.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/critique_of_david_rohl.pdf
The history of Israel is standard:
A people named Israel appear for the first time in the
Merneptah Stele, an
ancient Egyptian inscription which dates to about 1200 BCE.
[57][58][59][60] Ancestors of the Israelites are thought to have included
ancient Semitic-speaking peoples native to this area.
[61]: 78–79 According to the modern archaeological account, the Israelites and their culture branched out of the Canaanite peoples and their cultures through the development of a distinct
monolatristic—and later
monotheistic—religion centered on
Yahweh.
[62][63][64] They spoke an archaic form of the
Hebrew Language, known as
Ancient Hebrew.
[65] The archaeological evidence indicates a society of village-like centers, but with more limited resources and a small population.
[66] Villages had populations of up to 300 or 400,
[67][68] which lived by farming and herding, and were largely self-sufficient;
[69] economic interchange was prevalent.
[70] Writing was known and available for recording, even in small sites.
[71] Around the same time, the
Philistines settled on the southern
coastal plain.
[72][73]
Modern
archaeology has largely discarded
the historicity of the narrative in the
Torah concerning the
patriarchs,
The Exodus, and
the conquest of Canaan described in the
Book of Joshua, and instead views the narrative as constituting the
Israelites'
national myth.
[74] However, some elements of these traditions do appear to have historical roots.
[75][76][77]
Yes many are opposed to David Rohl but he may be correct.
But of course the thing about the Biblical archaeology is that it does not need David Rohl's new chronology to show the historicity of the Bible imo.
Yes the archaeology shows Israel came from Cannan and Genesis is a Mesopotamian story.
Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text
Genesis/Enuma Elish
The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis. Prior to the 19th century CE, the
Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once
cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.
Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer, translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.
Both Genesis and Enuma Elsih are religious texts which detail and celebrate cultural origins: Genesis describes the origin and founding of the Jewish people under the guidance of the Lord; Enuma Elish recounts the origin and founding of Babylon under the leadership of the god Marduk. Contained in each work is a story of how the cosmos and man were created. Each work begins by describing the watery chaos and primeval darkness that once filled the universe. Then light is created to replace the darkness. Afterward, the heavens are made and in them heavenly bodies are placed. Finally, man is created.
The
Epic of Atraḥasis is the fullest
Mesopotamian account of the
Great Flood, with Atraḥasis in the role of Noah. It was written in the seventeenth century BCE
- The supreme god Enlil's decision to extinguish mankind by a Great Flood
- Atraḥasis is warned in a dream
- Enki explains the dream to Atraḥasis (and betrays the plan)
- Construction of the Ark
- Boarding of the Ark
- Departure
- The Great Flood
